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...once segregated Monroe Elementary, which Linda Brown attended when her father Oliver sued to gain admission for his daughter to an all-white school closer to their home. Now a national historic site, Monroe is also the future home of the educational Brown Foundation, run by Linda and her younger sister Cheryl, which awards scholarships and publishes literature commemorating the case. Not far away is the Thurgood Marshall Bridge, namesake of the N.A.A.C.P. special counsel who won the case and later served as a Supreme Court Justice. But other vestiges of that time have been wiped away. Although blacks...
...school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide bus transportation for black students to reach their segregated schools, which were often 10 miles or more from their homes. "We ain't got no money to buy a bus for your n_____ children," R.M. Elliott declared. Says the younger Elliott: "My grandfather wasn't an evil man, but he was no hero by any means. He did what the times expected...
...Presidents cannot dictate their own budgets (as Prime Ministers can in parliamentary systems like Britain's); here, Congress has the ultimate say. Even worse, more than half the federal budget goes to entitlements and "transfer payments" like Social Security, where government is merely a conveyor belt transferring money from younger workers to older folks. What is left, "discretionary" spending, is a mere 8% of the $11 trillion economy Presidents are reputed to control...
...Agamemnon (Brian Cox), a greedy Greek with an addiction to regime change, and Priam of Troy (Peter O'Toole), whom melancholy has made too wise. Priam's younger son Paris (Orlando Bloom) has run off with Helen (Diane Kruger), legendarily gorgeous young wife of Agamemnon's brother Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson). Agamemnon and Odysseus of Ithaca (Sean Bean) lead a siege of Troy, and the kingdoms' best warriors--Achilles and Hector (Eric Bana)--are fated to fight...
...switch in attorneys and approach can be traced, sources tell TIME, to a rift in the family and the growing influence of Michael's younger brother Randy, 42, who has supplanted Jermaine as the brother most involved in the case. "Randy's got his ear right now," says a knowledgeable source. The brothers have been at odds before. When Jermaine left the Jacksons temporarily in 1975, Randy replaced him; years later, they had a tiff when Jermaine threatened to withdraw from a 2001 reunion concert. People close to the family see Randy as a more stabilizing influence than Jermaine...